School of Music

Dr Nicholas Jones

Overview

Dr Nicholas Jones has been an Associate Lecturer at the School of Music since 1996. He is a graduate of Cardiff University, where he gained a PhD for an analytical study of Peter Maxwell Davies’s Third Symphony and a portfolio of original compositions. From 2005 to 2007 he was a Lecturer in Music and Deputy Chair of the MA in Music programme at The Open University. His research interests lie primarily in post-war British music, particularly that of Peter Maxwell Davies, William Mathias and Anthony Powers. His work focuses on music analysis and sketch study.

Dr Jones is currently Co-ordinating Lecturer in the Humanities at Cardiff University’s Centre for Lifelong Learning – a position he has held since March 2008 – where he is responsible for organising a wide-ranging programme of courses in music, creative writing, historical studies and philosophy for adult learners.

He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for the music journal Tempo.

Book reviews and review-articles in twentieth-century music, Music & Letters, and The Musical Times.

Research

Nicholas Jones is currently working on a book concerning the writings of Peter Maxwell Davies.

Recent Research Papers, Public Lectures and Seminars

‘Interlacings: reflections on issues of autobiography in two works by Peter Maxwell Davies’, New Music in Britain, Canterbury Christ Church University, 10-12 May 2012

‘Issues of National Identity in Twentieth-Century British Music’, History, Archaeology, Politics and Identity - Exploring the Dynamics of the Past, one-day conference, Centre for Lifelong Learning, Cardiff University, 9 May 2009

‘The Music of Peter Maxwell Davies’, Cardiff Recorded Music Society, 30 November 2005